New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

  Over the past two weeks the garden has been transformed.  All of our early season crops and flowers have been planted. A few new items include: 1000 Beauregard Sweet Potatoes 3 varieties of bush green beans 2 varieties of pole beans radishes watermelons a small field of giant golden amaranth sunflowers 75 strawberries 50 […]

Gopal’s Garden Home School Co-op End-of-the-Year Party By Lilasuka dasi “Why did Krsna ask, ‘Which Brahma?’” This question came from a puzzled Lord Brahma, played by nine year old Josh Fintel, during the dramatic reading of Sankirtan das’s play Which Brahma? at the end of the year school party for Gopal’s Garden. The students at […]

Ah! In Vrndavana Forest all the animals, birds, trees, vines and countless other living entities, who are all very sweetly beautiful and as splendid as gold, have now become stunned by drinking the maddeningly sweet nectar of the bliss of great transcendental love. Ah! Induced by all of them, the most enchanting, priceless teenage treasure […]

Devotees “Hungry to Hear” at Festival of Inspiration By Madhava Smullen Arriving at Festival of Inspiration — seeing the rows of cars in the parking lot, the book and merchandise booths, the huge prasadam tent, the hundreds of devotees milling about on the lawns in front of New Vrindaban’s ISKCON temple and enjoying each other’s […]

Srimati Radharani’s maidservants are very beautiful. The vines of their arms and wrists are charmingly decorated with bracelets and armlets. The bells on their sashes and anklets tinkle melodiously. Their jewelled earrings are lovely. Their glistening braided hair is charming and splendid and the flower buds of their breasts are nicely decorated with necklaces of […]

Everyone is invited to the 8th Anniversary of 24 hr kirtan! Sat. June 21 – Sun. June 22, 2014 starts 11 A.M. Continuous chanting of the Lord’s Holy Names for 24 hours straight. Talented and devoted kirtaniyers will take turns leading the chanting. Schedule to be announced.    

Filled with amorous desires, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna gracefully enter the palace of vines. Their glistening eyes, words, limbs, and motions are all filled with nectar, and Their eyes move with amorous playfulness. Seeing all this, Radha’s maidservants begin to discreetly go outside, but the smiling divine couple brings them back in. They are […]

Sankirtana Das is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and a 38 year resident of New Vrindaban. He is a sacred storyteller, workshop leader and author of Mahabharata: The Eternal Quest. He was interviewed by Lilasuka Devi Dasi, Communications Director at New Vrindaban on May 11, 2014 Q. Congratulations. So how does it feel that your […]

By Madhava Smullen Bhakta Josef Lauber clearly loves his service. It comes through in his voice, as the words tumble out in a colorful torrent, filled with emotion. And why wouldn’t he? As head of ISKCON New Vrindaban’s Congregational Development Department, he is constantly guiding newcomers in Krishna consciousness, watching them learn, seeing their enthusiasm […]

Crying in a voice filled with pain, rolling about on the ground, bowing down to offer respect to the person who is his dearmost friend, placing blades of grass between his teeth, and with millions of plaintive words begging for the merciful glance of his two masters, staying all alone at the base of a […]